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English
Etymology
Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /æpə(ʊ)ˈdɪksɪs/, /æpə(ʊ)ˈdaɪksɪs/
Noun
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Everyone knows that global warming causes more extreme weather.
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apodixis
- (rhetoric) Supporting a proposition by reference to common knowledge.
Translations
proposition referencing common knowledge
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis).
Pronunciation
Noun
apodīxis f (genitive apodīxis or apodīxeōs or apodīxios); third declension
- (post-Classical) proof, demonstration
5th century, Pseudo-Ambrose, Epistolae, section 1.10:Crudelissima omnium feminarum, in filium meum voluisti apodixin tuae artis magicae demonstrare?- Cruellest of all women, did you desire to demonstrate the proof of your magical art upon my son?
Declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
References
- “apodixis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- apodixis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- apodixis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- apodixis in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “apodixis”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 49